Improvement in thrashing-machines



W. SGHZNEBLY. Thrashing Machine.

Patented June 21, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 104,503, dated fame 21, 1870.

1 IMPROVEMENT m THRAsHrNe-Mmrrmns.

.The Schedulereferred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it nwy concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM SCHNEBLY, of Hackensack, Bergen county, and Stateof New Jersey, have invented Improvements in Flail Thrashing Machines i and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and letters of reference marked shait, and forced thereby downward, they will readily conform themselves to any condition of straw or fibrous substance, upon which they are made to opcrate, independently, without aid from any additional spring or device for that'purpose. By this arrangement the power necessary to compress any other kind of spring will be. entirelygavoided, as I design to produce the result by the velocity of motion of the spring fiails or heaters, and not by the force or blow created of a compressed spring efi'ect-- ing a flail. 1 i

by the sudden expansion In the method of connecting the two series of spring flails or heaters bymeans of crank-pins, arms and. rods,

so as to make one side counterbalance the other, alternately, it will be seen that if an effort were made toraise up either series of fiails, separately and without such connection, they wonldassjume thecondition of a scalebeam, with a commodityon the one side of the ful-v crnm, destitute of the counterpoise weight on the other side, H r

In the method of conveying stalks of straw or fibrous substances through the machine while under the operation of thespring flails,'in full or original length, untangled, and to expel or throw oti the same in good condition for binding up, 850., by means of a'series .of rake-heads, containing a suitable number of teeth,

the floor or bed, the teeth being made long enough to project upward through the spaces left in the bed, and l supporting bars for that purpose.

To enable others to makdand use my invention, I

Figure 1 represents a perspective view.

, Figure 2 shows the arrangement of the conveying or carrying devices. g a a Figure 3 gives a side view of the connections, crankpins, &c.

.1 fie length-j 1 F F Frepi'eselits a frame, of suitable Fare cross-bars, long enough to make the frame F F F suitable for the full length of the substances to be thrashed.

a a a a are upright supports, of suflicient height for the oscillating shafts or bars 0 s 0 s. On one end of each are permanently fastened the crank-arms a a.

The oscillating shafts o s o s have rigidly attached to them each a series of metallic or other spring coiled flails, 2 2 2 2 2 and 3 3'3 3 3 3, of suitable length and diameter to give them a properdegree of flexibility,

so as to conform readily to the condition of the coininodity passing through under their operation.

' 5 is a receiving-floor or bed, which is continued;

under the spring flails to a suitable point, the floor or bed being supported by a series of bars running from cross-bars F to F". The floor or bed5 is provided with suitable spaces, 4 4 4 4, in line with the spaces between the bars 4 4 4 4, through which the teeth 1 1 l 1 are permitted to pass for conveying purposes, and to dislodge the thrashed substances from the machine ready for binding, 860.

S S" are side guides to keep the stalks in place. a. is a cam, rigidly fixed to the oscillating shaft 0 5', having a series of holes for the purpose of governingthe extent of the movement of the pawl P and convey-ing-rakcs. is made to operate on the ratchet It. S is a spur-wheel, in gear with the pinion P.

'In fig. 2, S S is the spur-wheel shaft, andR Sis the ratchet-wheel shaft, reaching'from side to side of frame F F, and protruding suiiiciently for the wheels to be fastened thereon.

On the shaft S S we loose pullies n n are ,placed for the endless belts B B to rest on, and which may be driven by the ratchet-wheel'shaft R S, without regard- 1 l 1 1, made long enough to project upward for purposes expressed.

Fig. 3 gives a side view of the arms a a, fly-wheel F W, crank-pins I) D I), and connecting-rods c 0, so being supported and carried by endless belts below that, when the spur-wheel S is turned, it .moves the other end of the shaft, giving motion, by means of a crank-pin, alternately to the arms'a a, oscillating the. shafts o s o s, withtheir spring flails 2 2 2 2 2 and 3 will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

3 3, 3 3 3, and, at the same time, producing the neces sary movement of the conveying or carryipg arrangcwith a spring coil, in combination with the oscillatingvided with rake-heads m m, in colnbinationwith the shafts o s and o s, as herein shown and for the purspring coil heaters and shafts o s o s, all constructed poses set forth. and operating as herein shown and described, for the 2. The combination of the arms a a with the oscilpurposes set forth.

lating shafts 0 s 0 s, and crank-pin D, fly-wheel F W WILLIAM SOHNEBLY. and rods 0 0, as herein described and for the purpose Witnesses: set forth. A. P. KIPP,

3. The arrangement of the endless belts B 13, pro- A. G. TERHUXE. 

